The Final Solution was the Nazi regime's plan to murder all the Jews of Europe, the genocide known as the Holocaust. Mass killings began with the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, when mobile killing units shot hundreds of thousands of Jews. At the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, Nazi officials coordinated the deportation of Jews from across Europe to extermination camps in occupied Poland, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec and Chelmno, where most victims were killed in gas chambers. About six million Jews died, along with large numbers of Roma and other victims of Nazi persecution. The killing ended only with Germany's defeat in 1945.
Before and after
- from 9 December 1940 to 9 February 1941Operation Compass
- from 20 December 1940 to 15 December 19441940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya
- from 29 December 1940 to 30 December 1940Second Great Fire of London
- 1941Discovery of plutonium
- from 1941 to 1945Final Solution
- 1941Rise of Vietnamese Independence League
- 1941Publication of Aegukga
- from 1941 to 1945Rise of Chetniks
- 19411941 becomes the warmest year on record
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- 7 December 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1944Golden Globes
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